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henry tapper
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51 years old , twice married, one son. Cambridge Graduate , Icelandic fisherman, failed management consultant. Rugby player, oarsman and double bassist.
Tries most things once- usually badly
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- Brilliant pension report from Raconteur
- Brilliant pensions website
- Bryanston School Alumni
- Chateau d'Oigny
- Guido Fawkes' political blog
- Inspirational blog from 21C actuary
- my linked in site
- Oliver Tapper's blog
- Pension Playpen
- Reasonable Force- should pensions be compulsory
- The Pension Play Pen
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EU Solvency II
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- In a muddle about investment management fees
- Not what's in the pot but what it buys - Pension RTI
- Diversification and speculation are different.
- "We don't know what we're doing"!
- Pensions personality - the oxymoron is back!
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- my linked in site
- Oliver Tapper's blog
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Tag Archives: FSA
Because it’s an ISA doesn’t make it a bargain.
Consumers are savvy, they understand supply chains and will chose the short ones as the route to sustainable value. Continue reading
Is this what your savings are paying for?
We have another Twickenham home international coming up, look out for your favourite analyst , he’ll be in one of the glass-fronted boxes . Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, FSA, Twickenham
Tagged Asset, Chief executive officer, Extel, Financial Services Authority, Financial Times, FSA, Investment management, Thomson Reuters
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It’s a wrap trap – but who’s been caught?
If you thought you were sick of pensions, imagine the nausea of the life company CEO. If you are such a beast and reading this, you are probably are American or European and your company brought into the UK a few years back … Continue reading
DC Trustees – asleep at the wheel?
I was spending insomniac hours reading posts about savings on http://www.moneysavingexpert.com when I came upon a thread about the ABI 14 agreeing to disclose transactional costs from next summer. There wasn’t much on the comments board – one post stood out. … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, corporate governance, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, First Actuarial, Management, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Personal Accounts
Tagged Active management, Financial Services Authority, FSA, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension fund, Terry Smith
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The dam is full – manage the sluices
It can’t be much fun at the ABI these days. The FSA are investigating mis-pricing of annuities, the OFT are studying the distribution insurers use for pensions and just about every consumerist from Gregg McClymont to the NAPF are calling … Continue reading
2 cheers for the Regulator’s new clothes
Not before time, the Pension Regulator is getting to grips with its responsibilities to protect members of UK DC plans. I am pleased that the Regulator is getting involved (one cheer) and I’m pleased that they are concentrating on outcomes (two … Continue reading
The RDR has scotch’d the snake not killed it!
the FSA has “scotched the snake not killed it”. Continue reading
Is honesty contagious? More on pension charges.
I’ve just read an excellent blog by Alastair Conway of Cofunds published on FT Advisor. It deals with the issues IFAs are facing as they enter the new world formed by the Retail Distribution Review and focusses on the adoption … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Change, dc pensions, NEST, pensions
Tagged Business, Financial Services Authority, FSA, Insurance, Investment management, pension, Steve Webb, VAT
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Advice in the workplace is 20% cheaper
I’m grateful to Paul Taylor of McCarthy Taylor for an excellent article on the current VAT treatment on the provision of free standing versus product related advice. His point is that when advice is linked to a VAT exempt product, the product can be used … Continue reading
